Thank you to all of you who attended today’s Coffee Morning with Professor Lebow. We hope you enjoyed it.

We woud like to invite you to two of our new events that will take place next week:

Wine Evening with Chris Coker – ‘the New Face of Warfare’

We are delighted to announce this term’s first wine evening. Join us for an enlightening discussion over a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink!

Professor Christopher Coker will talk about the highly relevant topic ‘the new face of warfare’ and what implications the drone warfare currently undertaken in the War on Terror might have.

Professor Chris Coker has been at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 1982. His main areas of expetise are British defence and foreign policy. He is a regular lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies (London); the NATO Defence College (Rome), the Centre for International Security (Geneva) and the National Institute for Defence Studies (Tokyo) He has spoken at other military institutes in Western Europe, North America, Australia and South-east Asia.

When: 18:30-19:30, Wednesday 9 November
Where: V103

Privatising war? Lecture by Geoff Maple
Geoff Maple is Head of Strategy for KBR’s International Government & Defence (IG&D) Business Unit. Geoff Maple has been with KBR since Spring 2009 after a period of Consultancy working alongside companies such as Deloitte, DHL and the MOD. Before consultancy, Geoff served in the Royal Air Force, finishing as a Wing Commander in the Logistic Branch.
International Government and Defence supports armed forces and government departments around the world by providing logistics and field support, operations and maintenance of camps and bases, programme and project management.
KBR is headquartered in Houston, Texas, also known as the energy capital of the world. It delivers a wide range of services through its Downstream, Gas Monetization, Infrastructure and Minerals, International Government and Defense, North American Government and Defense, Oil and Gas etc.
When: 18:00-20:00, Thursday 10 November
Where: D302
We look forward to seeing you there!

The Grimshaw Club Coffee Mornings have always been among the most popular events of our society and to inaugurate this year’s series we have invited Prof. Richard Ned Lebow to come and talk to us about his newest project on identity in International Relations “In Search of Ourselves”.

Prof. Lebow, who is one of the most distinguished International Relations scholars in the world, is a noted constructivist and expert on strategies of conflict management, the Cold War, the politics of memory and ancient Greek politics and literature.

Prof. Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and currently Centennial Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a visiting fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

As always, not only do we provide you with an amazing guest speaker, but also free coffee, tea and biscuits!

The Grimshaw Club is the student society affiliated to the LSE International Relations Department and, established in 1923, it is the oldest student society of the School. The Club welcomes all students interested in current affairs while also providing an important social forum for student and staff members of the ... Continue reading →